ABSTRACT

This chapter presents a comprehensive framework based on a set of core instruments that has been developed to assist stakeholders. Important work has been carried out by Working Group- National Institutional Arrangement (NIA) providing a strong grounding in the mechanisms of many parts of national geospatial information management. The development of the NIA-framework would benefit from drawing from existing governance and/or institutionalization disciplinary expertise and literature dealing with relevant governance structures and business models. Three mechanisms underpinning institutional arrangements – with an emphasis on coordination – can be distinguished: hierarchies, markets and networks. Instruments can be either structural or managerial. Institutional arrangements may be realized by creating new or changing existing structures or management forms within the government. In order to apply the identified NIA-instruments in the context of geospatial information management, existing good practices in Member States were collected for each NIA-instrument and described in a standardized template.